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Katie Neck
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Sustainability
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Katie Neck helps organisations close future skills gaps across AI, sustainability, and workforce transformation, drawing on work as an AI and climate risk expert. An Official Ambassador to Anthropic, she is an Earthshot Prize nominee and winner of the Barclays Outstanding Entrepreneur Award.
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Katie Neck is a sustainability and AI leader helping organisations turn artificial intelligence and climate risk into decisions leaders can act on with confidence.
She is founder and Managing Director of Sustained Futures, Official Ambassador to Anthropic, winner of the Barclays Outstanding Entrepreneur Award and a 2026 Earthshot Prize nominee. Katie previously spent six seasons at McLaren F1, where she developed its first sustainability agenda and led R&D and technology partnerships. She later advised S&P 100 clients on AI and data-driven sustainability strategy across sectors including aerospace, defence, and financial services, and has spoken at COP26 and to the UK Government.
Katie draws on this experience to show leaders exactly where AI creates value and where climate exposure threatens it, translating two abstract risks into numbers a board can own. Having upskilled more than six thousand people across twenty-two countries in climate, AI, and mindset skills, she knows which decisions protect revenue, talent, and growth, and which get organisations ahead of the change already underway.
Audiences leave with a clearer read on where to invest in AI, where to hold back, and the first moves that protect their business through the decade ahead. She draws on Formula 1 to show how organisations can use data, technology, and rapid decision-making more effectively to drive commercial value.
For organisations navigating AI adoption, climate risk, or future workforce needs, Katie brings a commercially grounded perspective shaped by both technology and sustainability.
Topics, sessions and talks
Boards rarely treat AI and climate as the same conversation, yet Katie Neck argues they belong together because both move the same numbers: margin, talent, and growth. Drawing on her work advising S&P 100 leadership teams, she reframes two risks usually kept in separate reports as one commercial equation, then walks through which decisions protect revenue. Leaders leave with a way to price two threats that used to feel abstract, and a clear sense of where to act first.
Most leadership teams still treat AI and climate change as choices rather than certainties already reshaping how they operate. Katie Neck challenges that, separating what is now fixed from what remains open to decide, drawing on experience advising S&P 100 clients and speaking at COP26. Rather than urging panic or paralysis, she offers a structured way to plan for both forces at once. Audiences leave with a calmer read on the decade ahead and the moves worth making immediately.
Katie Neck pushes back on two oversimplified stories: that artificial intelligence is pure upside and climate change is pure cost. As Official Ambassador to Anthropic, she has the access to separate genuine AI return from hype, and the sustainability background to price climate exposure honestly rather than sell reassurance. The result is a session built on evidence, not vendor positioning. Attendees leave better equipped to decide, with real confidence, where their organisation should invest and where it should hold back.
Capital keeps flowing into new technology, but Katie Neck's work with more than six thousand people across twenty-two countries points to a different bottleneck: judgement, adaptability, and the ability to work alongside AI, not around it. She backs the argument with data, not assertion, challenging the assumption that future-proofing a workforce is mainly a technical exercise. Leaders leave with a clear view of what to hire for, what to promote for, and which capabilities sit outside the usual STEM checklist.
Formula One crews make high-stakes calls from live data in the time it takes to blink, and Katie Neck spent six seasons inside that environment shaping McLaren's sustainability agenda. She carries the same discipline from the pit wall into the boardroom, showing leaders how to trust their own data sooner and act before circumstances force their hand. Rather than a motorsport nostalgia piece, this session leaves audiences with an instinct for the data already sitting inside their own organisation.
Katie’s edge is the combination of high-speed F1 decision-making, senior corporate strategy, and hands-on workforce upskilling. She translates AI and climate pressures into practical choices around investment, skills, data, and organisational capability, especially relevant for leadership teams facing rapid technological change.
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Katie Neck structures her sessions around a dual-risk reframe, taking AI and climate change — typically handled in separate boardroom conversations — and consolidating them into a single commercial equation. She draws on her advisory work with S&P 100 leadership teams to translate both forces into concrete numbers around margin, talent, and growth, giving audiences a prioritised set of decisions rather than a general call to action.
Katie Neck structures her sessions around a dual-risk reframe, taking AI and climate change — typically handled in separate boardroom conversations — and consolidating them into a single commercial equation. She draws on her advisory work with S&P 100 leadership teams to translate both forces into concrete numbers around margin, talent, and growth, giving audiences a prioritised set of decisions rather than a general call to action.
Katie Neck structures her sessions around a dual-risk reframe, taking AI and climate change — typically handled in separate boardroom conversations — and consolidating them into a single commercial equation. She draws on her advisory work with S&P 100 leadership teams to translate both forces into concrete numbers around margin, talent, and growth, giving audiences a prioritised set of decisions rather than a general call to action.
Katie Neck's sessions address the commercial intersection of AI and climate risk, board-level decision-making on technology and sustainability investment, and translating abstract future threats into revenue-protecting strategy. She is Official Ambassador to Anthropic, a 2026 Earthshot Prize nominee, and a Barclays Outstanding Entrepreneur Award winner who previously built McLaren F1's first sustainability agenda and has advised S&P 100 leadership teams across aerospace, defence, and financial services.
Katie Neck's sessions address the commercial intersection of AI and climate risk, board-level decision-making on technology and sustainability investment, and translating abstract future threats into revenue-protecting strategy. She is Official Ambassador to Anthropic, a 2026 Earthshot Prize nominee, and a Barclays Outstanding Entrepreneur Award winner who previously built McLaren F1's first sustainability agenda and has advised S&P 100 leadership teams across aerospace, defence, and financial services.
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